Renew Participants: Janicke Johansen

Janicke’s artwork is interpretive and modern combining textures, patterns and intense colours to create responses to her environment and memory.

Colour is dripped, sprayed, scraped and splashed onto the canvas and then blocked out with bold whites and muted colours to create the final image. There are recurring themes such as people, flora and fauna that emerge from Janicke’s work, often with a quirky playfulness about them. Janicke also creates sculptures using recycled plastic, tape and wire as the core of the piece with a papier mache and plaster covering to create a stone like appearance.